(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) A corporate media journalist at the Washington Post openly stated that the Left’s court strategy is using shame to force conservative judges to conform to their dogmas.
In a recently-published op-ed, journalist Perry Bacon Jr. claimed that, because the judiciary in the United States often hinders “progress,” the left must find ways to circumvent the rule of law, Fox News reported.
“America’s judiciary is dominated by conservatives issuing an endless stream of rulings that help corporations, the rich and the bigoted while hurting working-class people, women and minorities in particular,” he wrote, noting that the conservative justices on the Supreme Court pose a particular problem.
“Biden’s lower-court appointees must follow the precedents set by the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court or their rulings will be overturned. Meanwhile, the high court usually allows very-right-wing opinions issued by lower-level conservative judges to remain in place.”
Since the courts tend to get in the way of progress, Bacon therefore concluded that there is only one way to ram through the agenda needed to create his leftist utopia: public shame and terror.
“So at least in the short term, there is only one real option to rein in America’s overly conservative judiciary: shame.”
His op-ed continued with refreshing honesty about the political situation as it currently stands, as he called for a coordinated attack by all of the major left-wing institutions against conservatives in the courts.
“Democratic politicians, left-leaning activist groups, newspaper editorial boards and other influential people and institutions need to start relentlessly blasting Republican-appointed judges. A sustained campaign of condemnation isn’t going to push these judges to write liberal opinions, but it could chasten them toward more moderate ones.”
In the longer term, Bacon noted that the strategy for the left should be far more radical, including but not limited to major constitutional overhauls such as “term limits for Supreme Court justices,” “court-packing” and “limitations of federal judges’ ability to invalidate legislation.”
